I confess a bit of shock at the bold, nay, rash words of Comrade R… Ālea iacta est    But does he realize that?

If I were so rash, I’d have made arrangements for Russian citizenship, or at least resident status, first… speaking of which Brother Scott might apply for a special commission in the Russian Army… VVP has mooted ideas along such lines. Scott may have resident status already, come to think on it, married into the Nation, iirc. Best! P

The misc en scene above has imho a photoshop flaw…realism is important… add candle, syringe, and spoon…

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More interestingly…

ecce! Effecta tauri cacas>

Only to note that Stumpy says that the Affair Epstein is a limited hangout…the real story is about “pizza”…

The Epstein list surprises no one.

At the time of the passing out of the Federal Slammer of Dear Jeff, I caught a post from a screw… he left alive, in his opinion. I rather imagine he’s still with his employer.

Best! P

I was evidently unclear. Of course nukes won’t work, as I said they do not produce any victory, only a deeper failure, a failure worse than Gaza. In the instance, however, I fancy the nukes might be aimed at Iran, not Yemen. Use being the signal of abject moral corruption and worthlessness, it’s synonymous with defeat. Since the Pirates are faced with an existential catastrophe, they may be expected to use every weapon, no matter how idiotic the effect. If they were better educated, well, then they might… ah! but the machine selects for fools… I am recalling too that these men of Pirate sort are in many examples using drugs… we mustn’t expect sage actions..  Best! P

how the Pirate Armada prevents this

I would say that the pirates will attack elsewhere, an indirect approach, of course.

Since the situation is zugswang, and remembering that they always double, well! This dove-tails, probably, to the outrageous provocation… Some of the Pirates would like to experiment with atom bombs… Just how such a choice might produce any sort of victory is a great mystery…if people see genocide in Gaza, what will they see if the Pirates use the bomb?

In chess, zugswang is. In the instance it’s simply a step on the ladder. They see an existential and stark fate, and are like drowning men.

Yes, each of us as our characters reflect things, sees the tragic pornography of vice, and is appalled, and also drawn. When I see the direction, now hopelessly tied to industrial means, it’s natural and obvious to expect the new to carry the seeds of ruin once again…though many happy children may live long happy lives before this tragedy arises again…what? 1000 years, or maybe not… we’ll see, I hope! BTW Father’s early passing ended many, most, of my deep history lessons – I have mixed thoughts about it.

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Recalling the lady-like look that sparks between young women and young men, between mothers and children…and all of that… I see that Mother is winking at her lost child… just winking… The referendums will arise as the time comes… 😉

https://www.rt.com/shows/documentary/590036-russian-alaska-orthodoxy-and-independence/

Then they’ll spread… Not overnight… As sort of auto-revisionist manifestation of actual History…

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It’s like Lenin said… https://youtu.be/dHyGCCZzG2o

What’s that smell…smells like 911 and rot…

Just Like 9/11? Suspicious Israeli Stock Market Activity Hints at Foreknowledge of October 7 Attack

and https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4652027

Abstract: learned paper by legal boffins>

Recent scholarship shows that informed traders increasingly disguise trades in economically linked securities such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Linking that work to longstanding literature on financial markets’ reactions to military conflict, we document a significant spike in short selling in the principal Israeli-company ETF days before the October 7 Hamas attack. The short selling that day far exceeded the short selling that occurred during numerous other periods of crisis, including the recession following the financial crisis, the 2014 Israel-Gaza war, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, we identify increases in short selling before the attack in dozens of Israeli companies traded in Tel Aviv. For one Israeli company alone, 4.43 million new shares sold short over the September 14 to October 5 period yielded profits (or approximates
avoided losses) of millions on that additional short selling for one out of hundreds of securities traded on the TASE. Although we see no aggregate increase in shorting of Israeli companies on U.S. exchanges, we do identify a sharp and unusual increase, just before the attacks, in trading in risky short-dated options on these companies expiring just after the attacks. We identify similar patterns in the Israeli ETF at times when it was reported that Hamas was planning to execute a similar attack as in October. Our findings suggest that traders informed about the coming attacks profited from these tragic events, and consistent with prior literature we show that trading of this kind occurs in gaps in U.S. and international enforcement of legal prohibitions on informed
trading. We contribute to the growing literature on trading related to geopolitical events and offer suggestions for policymakers concerned about profitable trading on the basis of information about coming military conflict.

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Iran sends 2nd notice to US over Gen. Soleimani assassination https://en.mehrnews.com/news/210202/Iran-sends-2nd-notice-to-US-over-Gen-Soleimani-assassination

Wheels and gears grind slowly, but by the time the case gets to the Court the defendant party may be is pretty poor condition… and the Court may have shrugged off some fetters…by then.

Anyway, wait and watch, ahbetcha it gets innarrestin’